Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the ...

You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...

Oracle9i includes numerous data structures to improve the speed of Oracle SQL queries. Taking advantage of the low cost of disk storage, Oracle9i includes many new indexing algorithms that ...

Developers can use the ORDER SIBLINGS BY feature of Oracle 10g and later to sort the records in a hierarchy created by the START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses in a SELECT statement. Oracle’s START WITH ...

The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

An earlier utility for queries and reports that was part of Oracle's Discoverer tool. See Developer/2000 and Oracle Developer Suite. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

Does Oracle have any tools that can help me predict the number of records in and/or the "cost" of executing a query besides explain plan? Depending on the number of predicted rows or cost of a query, ...